Friday, 29 November 2013

The way you treat others is the
way you treat yourself. True respect for another comes from self respect. True
love for another comes from self love. True forgiveness for another comes from
self forgiveness. - Unknown

Character
cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and
suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and
success achieved. - Unknown

The weather-cock
on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the
storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. - Heinrich
Heine

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands
the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before
they die. -S. I. Hayakawa

When we clear out other people’s
expectations or the classic things we are supposed to want, we make room to
take baby steps toward our true dreams. - Unknown

No one day is alike another, each
tomorrow has its special miracle, its magic moment in which old universes are
destroyed and new stars are created. - Paulo
Coelho

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Buddhism:- the belief in the limitless human
capacity for wisdom, compassion and courage, starting with a deep understanding
of your own limitless nature. - Unknown

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? - Buddha

As the rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all. - Buddha

Be ye lamp unto yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. See salvation alone in the truth. - The Buddha

Buddhism is not about religion. Buddhism is about wisdom of nature. The nature of mind. - Unknown

Free yourself from attachment.
Know the sweet joy of the way. How joyful to look upon the awakened and to keep
company with the wise. How long the road to the man who travels the road with
the fool. - Buddha

No matter how far out on the sea of suffering
we’ve sailed, all that is required is to turn toward awakening. It’s never too
late, but it takes that turning, and no one can do that for us. - Bommie Myotai Treace

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Vanity

The surest cure for vanity is
loneliness. - Thomas Wolfe

The knowledge of yourself will
preserve you from vanity. - Miguel de Cervantes

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that
everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this and you who read this. - Blaise
Pascal

Monday, 25 November 2013

Sometimes we say things without thinking. Sometimes words come out a
different meaning to the one we intended them to be. Here are a few examples.

People can have
the Model T in any colour - so long as it's black. - Henry Ford

People would not want to know of any
misquotes that I may or may not make. - Unknown

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t
like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. - Bill
Shanky

Spare no expense
to make everything as economical as possible. - Samuel Goldwyn

Sure, there have been deaths and
injuries in boxing, but none of them serious. - Alan Winter

The doctors
X-rayed my head and found nothing. - Unknown

The loss of life will be
irreplaceable. - Unknown

The truth is more important than
the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The very best impromptu speeches
are the ones written well in advance. - Ruth
Gordon

We have deep depth. - Unknown

We made too many
wrong mistakes. - Unknown

We're all capable of mistakes, but
I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. - Unknown

When I have been asked who caused
the riots and the killing, my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to
blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the
killings? The killers are to blame. - Unknown

With eight minutes left, the game
could be won in the next five or ten minutes. - Unknown

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat
six. - Unknown

Saturday, 23 November 2013

A bad book is as much of a labour
to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. - Aldous
Huxley

A professional writer is an
amateur who didn't quit. - Richard Bach

A writer only becomes a true
writer by practising his craft, by experimenting constantly with language, as a
great artist may experiment with clay or oils until the medium becomes second
nature, to be moulded however the artist may desire. - Christabel Lamotte

A writer writes not because he is
educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need
to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be
understood. - Leo Rosten

All there is to
writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. - Robert Frost

Employ your time
in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily
what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

Habits in writing as in life are
only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. - William Somerset
Maugham

I must write it all out, at any
cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of
living. - Anne Lindbergh

If there's a book you want to read
but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

If you write a page a
day, you will be an author of a thick book in a year. Great results will take
shape when small efforts are continually put in over time. - Unknown

In writing
biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fiction
parts should be printed in red ink, the fact parts in black ink. - Catherine Drinker Bowen

Nothing you write, if you hope to
be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. - Lillian Hellman

Omit needless words. Vigorous
writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph
no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no
unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that
the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat
his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. - William Strunk

One of the few things I know about writing is this:
spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard
what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it,
give it all, give it now. - Annie Dillard

Sit down and
put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an
author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy
most of it. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Start writing a new chapter, for
if you live by the book you’ll never make history. - Ben Sobel

Talent alone
cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which,
by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which
exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first page sells that book.
The last page sells your next book. - Mickey Spillane

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis.
- William Styron

The really great writers are
people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited
experience and unlimited imagination. - James A. Michener

The reason that there are so few
good books written is that so few people who write know anything. - Walter
Bagehot

The secret of good writing is to
say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. - Richard
Harding Davis

The waste basket is the writer's best friend. - Isaac Singer

The way you define yourself as a
writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't
behave that way you would never do anything. - John Irving

There are two kinds of writers;
those that make you think, and those that make you wonder. - Brian Aldiss

To write simply
is as difficult as to be good. - William Somerset Maugham

To write something you have to
risk making a fool of yourself. - Anne
Rice

To write what
is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible
people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. - Charles
Colton

Two sorts of
writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When asked, "How do you
write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time." - Stephen King

When something can be read without
effort, great effort has gone into its writing. - Enrique Jardiel Poncela

When you take stuff
from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. - Wilson
Mizner

Write a wise saying and your name
will live forever. - Unknown

Write what you like, then imbue it
with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of
life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. - Stephen King

Writers like teeth are divided
into incisors and grinders. - Walter Bagehot

Writing a book is a very lonely
business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your
obsessions and memories. - Mario Vargas Llosa

Writing became such a process of
discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know
what I was going to say. - Sharon O'Brien

Writing is the supreme solace. - William
Somerset Maugham

Writing when properly managed, is
but a different name for conversation. - Laurence Sterne

You can’t write about people out
of textbooks, and you can’t use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply
and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have
the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal
to the highest intelligence. - Katherine Anne Porter

You don’t write because you want
to say something, you write because you have something to say. - F. Scott
Fitzgerald

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Whenever the energy of
anger comes up, we often want to express it to punish the person whom we
believe to be the source of our suffering. This is the habit energy in us. When
we suffer, we always blame the other person for having made us suffer. We do
not realize that anger is, first of all, our business. We are primarily
responsible for our anger, but we believe very naively that if we can say
something or do something to punish the other person, we will suffer less. This
kind of belief should be uprooted. Because whatever you do or say in a state of
anger will only cause more damage in the relationship. Instead, we should try
not to do anything or say anything when we are angry. - Thich Nhat Hanh

When I despair, I remember that
all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been
tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible. But in the
end, they always fall. Think of it – always. - Mahatma Gandhi

When you meet
someone with good manners, you cannot know immediately if you are meeting a
good person. You may not know for years, or ever. But you will know instantly
that something is right about the person. - Unknown

Everything that was, is and ever
could be, is contained within this present moment. Time is merely a construct
of a wholly false perception. - Unknown

Gain control of your time, and you
will gain control of your life. - John L. Mason

He
that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the
greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon

He who forces time is pushed back
by time; he who yields to time finds time on his side. - Unknown

I recommend you to
take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. - William Shakespeare

I wish I could stand
on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. - Bernard
Berenson

If a person gives you his time, he
can give you no more precious gift. - Unknown

If I have made an appointment with
you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time. - Richard
Cecil

If time be of all things the most
precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. - Benjamin Franklin

If you can go back in time for
five years, what would you do differently? You cannot go back in time, but you
can think five years ahead – Now! - Unknown

If you nurture your mind, body,
and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will
allow you to accomplish much more. - Brian Koslow

In theory one is aware that the
earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which
one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time
in one’s life. - Marcel
Proust

In
times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like
these. - Paul Harvey

It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times. - Charles Dickens

Just
as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time
left to you. - Lisa Alther

Know the true value of time!
Snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no
procrastination. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Lord
Chesterfield Stanhope

Let every man be master of his time. - William Shakespeare

Lost time is never
found again. - John H. Aughey

Lost wealth may be replaced by
industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but
lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles

Men
talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion
Boucicault

Modern man
thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he
does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it. - Erich
Fromm

No man can stay the passage of
time however happy his life may be. Time, like an omnipotent policeman moves us
all on willy-nilly. This ceaseless passage of time is so obvious a quality of
our lives that we take it for granted. Within this ceaseless movement, all
things we know are born, grow, decay and die, and we along with them. - K.
Sri Dhammananda

Oh
Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer
when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger! - Lord Bryon

Once you have
mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate
what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in
a decade! - Tony Robbins

One always has time enough, if one
will apply it well. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One thing you can not recycle is
wasted time. Lost time is never found again. - Unknown

Quit saying you
don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life. - Bryant
McGill

Remember
that time is money. - Benjamin Franklin

Take
time by the forelock. - Charles Dickens

Take time to
work – it is the price of success. Take time to think – it is the source of
power. Take time to play – it is the secret of perpetual youth. Take time to
read – it is the foundation of wisdom. Take time to be
friendly – it is the road to happiness. Take time to dream – it is hitching your wagon to a star. Take time to laugh – it is the music
of the soul. Take time with God – it is the source of strength.- Unknown

The
time to relax is when you don’t
have time for it. - Sydney J. Harris

The time will pass anyway. You can
either spend it creating the life you want or spend it living the life you
don’t want. The choice is yours. - Unknown

The time you
enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell

There are a million ways to lose a
day, but not even a single way to get one back. Do not squander time, for that
is the stuff life is made of. The ability to concentrate and use your time well
is everything. - Lee Iacocca

There are some things which cannot
be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for
their acquiring. - Ernest Hemingway

There
is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.- Unknown

There is always time to make right
what is wrong. - Susan Griffin

There is never enough time, unless
you’re serving
it. - Malcolm Forbes

There is nothing of which we are
apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous;
since without it we can do nothing in this world. - William Penn

There is one
kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most
precious to men: Time. - Napoleon Bonaparte

There is time for
everything. - Thomas A. Edison

There’s time enough, but none to spare.
- Charles W. Chesnutt

This time, like all times, is a
very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson

Those who make the worst use of
their time are the first to complain of its shortness. - Jean De La Bruyere

Time
brings all things to pass. - Aeschylus

Time cools, time clarifies; no
mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - Mark Twain

Time gives birth to both judge and
jury. - Unknown

Time has a wonderful way of
showing us what really matters. - Margaret
Peters

Time has no meaning in itself
unless we choose to give it significance. Moments pass swiftly or as eternities
depending upon our state of mind – or rather how we are willing to suspend our
minds. It is often said that there are those who can experience more in a
moment than some can experience in a lifetime. Time is relative. It is ours,
given freely to spend wisely or to squander idly, but never to be hoarded. Time
past is gone and all the moaning will never bring it back. - Leo Buscaglia

Time invested in
improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others. - Unknown

Time is a fixed income and, as
with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully
within our daily allotment. - Margaret B. Johnstone

Time is a silent
and invisible collaborator. - Jane Hirschfield

Time is a sort of
river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing
brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too
will be swept away. - Marcus Aurelius

Time is an equal
opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and
minutes in a day. - Denis Waitley

Time is generally the best doctor.
- Ovid

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same
water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy
every moment of life. -
Unknown

Time
is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. - Josh Billings

Time is like the
ocean, always there, always different. - Ogden Nash

Time is more
value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. - Jim
Rohn

Time is nature’s way of preventing
everything from happening at once. - Grafitto

Time is not a commodity, something
you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you
to give your time, they are really asking for a chunk of your life. - Unknown

Time is not a great
healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at
all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. - Ivy
Compton-Burnett

Time is that in which all things pass away. - Schopenhauer

Time is the coin of your life. It
is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be
careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

Time is the devourer of all things.
- Ovid

Time is the most precious element
of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and
how to draw success from time. - Denis Waitley

Time is the most
valuable thing a man can spend. - Theophrastus

Time is the only critic without
ambition. - John Steinbeck

Time is too slow for those who
wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short
for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van
Dyke

Time makes more
converts than reason. - Thomas Paine

Time raises standards. If we could
bring one of today’s technologies back one hundred years, we would be
worshipped like gods. Today, even the landing of a man on Mars will be
considered a fairly mundane event. - Unknown

Time sometimes flies like a bird,
sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even
notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. - Ivan Turgenev

Time spent in
getting even would be better spent in getting ahead. - Unknown

Time will bring to light whatever
is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendour. - Horatius

Time, for all its smuggling in of
new problems conspicuously cancels others. - Unknown

Time, like life itself, has no
inherent meaning. We give our own meaning to time, as to life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time, you old gypsy man, will you
not stay, put up your caravan just for one day? - Ralph Hodgson

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value
your time, you will not do anything with it. - M. Scott Peck

Wait
for that wisest of counsellors, Time. - Pericles

Waste your money and you are only
out of money, but waste your time and you have lost a part of your life. - Unknown

We all sorely
complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to
do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing
nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always
complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end
of them. - Seneca

We cannot waste time.
We can only waste ourselves. - George Matthew Adams

We must use time as a tool, not as
a crutch. - John F. Kennedy

We must use time wisely and
forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. - Nelson Mendela

We
never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time
there is. -
Arnold Bennett

What can be done at
any time is never done at all. - Unknown

When men are not regretting that
life is so short, they are doing something to kill time. - Edgar Watson Howe

When the time is right, you just
got to do it. - Jack Simplot

You may ask me
for anything you like except time. - Napoleon Bonaparte

You will never ‘find’ time for
anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton

Your time is
limited, so don’t waste it living
someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of
others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most
important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow
already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve
Jobs